Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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